I’ve spent a good deal of spare time with NC-20 Burton’s various comments, researching them, seeking out his information and my own, it gets thick since in genuine Gish Gallop fashion, and like a kid with ADD, before one topic is exhausted, he’s off to another, so we can’t focus on one issue at a time as one would do in a Constructive Dialogue.
But than the Republican PR machine has learned WC Fields' lesson quite well: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit" and heap it on fast as you can, so 'they' can't get it cleared up.
But than the Republican PR machine has learned WC Fields' lesson quite well: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit" and heap it on fast as you can, so 'they' can't get it cleared up.
Then my time's up and I need to run off. So I get overwhelmed and all I have to show for it is a trash folder full of false starts. Couple days ago he zings in this one from deep in right field and I figure I may as well post it while it’s hot, and before it has a chance to joint the trash folder. My response is a revision of what I posted over at "The Changing Carolina Coast: Managing The Threat Of Rising Water" comments thread.
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In supporting his claim that the physics of CO2 indicate that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere won’t cause hardly any warming - NC-20 Burton invokes the following:
NC-20 Burton… just as adding a 30th blanket to your bed won't warm you as much as adding the 1st blanket did, so adding a few more Gt of CO2 to the atmosphere won't reduce IR emissions by much.
{That’s not what the experts who understand and work with this physics in real life have to say, your Mr. Happer not withstanding. Here, see how a real expert explains this complex topic}
David Archer: "Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast"
http://forecast.uchicago.edu/lectures.html
